1.  Every day used to be Christmas at the Tea Room, where the main dining room was festooned year-round with tinsel and decorative Christmas balls hanging from chandeliers.

2.  It also is laden with state decorative balls, colored glass balls and thousands of lights.

3.  Not even a decorative ball.

4.  Decorative balls and brightly coloured garlands are festooned everywhere, matching the smiles of security staff as travellers who previously stayed away begin venturing to Freetown.